PORT MORESBY – Whooping cough has hit villages along Lake Murray in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province but it has been brought under control, according to Middle Fly health services.
More than 200 people had been treated for the disease at Aimabak and Boboa clinics while about 1000 people had come forward with complaints such as cold, flu and measles.
Following reports of the outbreak, a health patrol team was deployed to Aimabak and then to Lake Murray.
It brought medical supplies and awareness materials for whooping cough and other related diseases and then travelled further down to Obo (lower Middle Fly) and Boboa (Lake Murray station) health facilities to treat the sick.
Patrol team leader Nelson Witi said all these cases were diagnosed clinically, and out of the 201 whooping cough cases 149 were new cases.
